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Not buying it. Some people are not happy until everyone bends to their coercion. They will use anything convenient: religion, racism, sexism, anything, to drive their viewpoint forward, to everyone's detriment. So what? I won't defend chainmail bikinis. Not because I have anything against...

I actually agree with you. My post was more a repudiation of Pickles III's statement that rolling let's the dice influence things too much. It doesn't. Rolling against an active opponent roll slightly lowers your chance of succeeding if you have good bonuses vs. doing so against a static DC, but...

Pressed for time, so this will ramble a bit: If you look at my post that mentions "modern sensibilities" it was specifically about in-game character behavior with regards to legality. It stemmed from another poster's link to Power Kill: which to me represents a very distorted viewpoint on...

It's fantasy, so sure you can play anything you like. It's not so much applying what you like to the game that is silly, it's the *debate* regarding such things that's ludicrous. That said, I do prefer a certain style to my games: Most poeple play some facsimile of a medieval setting with...

I think resistance to cold is fine for most undead. Although...I can easily envision firey undead beings which would not have cold resistance. I think there may even have been something like this in first edition. I could be wrong though.

...or that there are multiple valid interpretations of the rules a reasonable person may make. That's not necessarily the same as broken.

Not to mention that medieval style legal systems bore little resemblance to modern day ones. Trying to apply modern sensibilities in a sword & sorcery fantasy game is nigh near ludicrous.

Coming directly to 5th from 1st/2nd edition, the whole 'passive' thing is still new to me and I haven't fully decided on how much I like it. That said, I did some experimenting today. I wrote a computer program to simulate rolling contests vs rolling against a static DC. The differences are...

I mentioned the barrel thing. Don't get me wrong, I allow hiding in combat, but there has to be some uncertainty in where the character really is. So a 3' high x 10' long wall, or a set of multiple barrels would be sufficient to give some uncertainty in the exact position of the hiding...

I think triathlons are better than marathons, so I guess that makes me a racist.

Dang it, I knew I left some off!

You mean a typical dwarf? Why not something original... :cool:

Let's just go back to calling every playable race that isn't human a demi-human. That's much better. :p

Recommended new elf races: aquatic, gray, valley, wild, snow, tolkien, house, earth, air, fire, water, semi-aquatic, desert, mud, christmas, undead, good, bad, ugly

To be more specific 1st edition PHB says player character elves are considered high-elves. But the DMG gives age statistics for these elf subraces for NPC's: aquatic, drow, gray, high, wood 1st edition Unearthed Arcana opened further elf subraces up to player characters: dark(drow) gray, high...

At first I was thinking my tongue in cheek statement was being taken the wrong way. Agreed on all counts.

I know. I just pointing out that whether or not you throw it is pretty much irrelevent when classifying into melee/ranged. If I throw my crossbow, is it a ranged weapon (DEX), or a thrown improvised weapon (STR?) :p

A dart isn't a melee weapon. It isn't the method of propulsion, it's the intended use. I could club someone over the head with a crossbow, but that doesn't make it a melee weapon.

D&D has always been about guidelines, not rules. Even if the designers decide from on high that a rule is inviolable, I can always tell them to take a flying leap. Like every edition of every RPG before it and every one to follow, the official rules are a mixture of brilliant, mediocre, and...

There is a fair bit of that. One of the party members always wants to collect the head of any new type of creature they kill. He regularly visits a taxidermist in town, but I am constantly being asked things like "How much does a bugbear's head weigh?" Now that's a table I've never seen. I've...